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From: Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer@gsi.de>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
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Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15863 comp.os.vms:515811
Dennis Boone schrieb:
> One of the key things mickeysoft fails to understand is that _some_
> people do occasionally need to use old data. We had a textbook written
> 25 years ago using MacWord 1.0 that we needed to read. None of the
> Mac or Windows Words we could find would touch it.
There's a reason they called it "Word" and
not "Book" or "Text".
Should have used [La]TeX, i.e. plain ASCII.
> Archivists these days are trying to figure out how to prevent the
> last 40 years of data and documents from vanishing down the ratholes
> of history.
One might be tempted to say: if it's not printed on paper,
it's not worth keeping it.